rhymeletn.
/ˈrʌɪmlᵻt/, U.S. /ˈraɪmlət/ A short piece of rhyme or poetry.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > short verse or poem > [noun]
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1848 Juvenile Bethel Flag Mag. June 144 Get up early! if a rhymelet Be your task to write.
c1870 M. Collins in Lett. & Friendships (1877) I. v. 66 I meant to say your rhymelets smell More of the country than Pall Mall.
1917 J. Adams Student's Guide 76 Many of us..have been grateful to the author of certain flagrant rhymelets.
1989 M. V. Jackson Engines of Instr., Mischief & Magic 238 Prince Dorus.., whose grandiloquent rhymelets could hardly have been meant for younger children.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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